Idiosyncrasies – DaneCobain.com

Title: On Cats

Author: Charles Bukowski

Type: Non-Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 120

Rating: 5*/5

Charles Bukowski – On Cats

I loved this book for many reasons. It’s Bukowski, which helps, and it’s about cats, which also helps. I’ve recently adopted a cat of my own and so it was fun to see him writing about their little quirks and idiosyncrasies. I also liked the way that it included photos of Bukowski with his cats, as well as a mixture of prose and poetry.

This would make the perfect novelty book for any cat lover, but it’s also pretty much a must-have for any Bukowski fan – especially as it includes previously unreleased material. It’s entertaining and heartwarming at the same time.

Charles Bukowski

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Hunter S. Thompson – The Rum Diary | Review

Title: The Rum Diary

Author: Hunter S. Thompson

Type: Fiction

Page Count/Review Word Count: 214

Rating: 8/10

Hunter S. Thompson – The Rum Diary

The Rum Diary tells the heartwarming and tragic tale of the adventures of journalist Paul Kemp in Puerto Rico, where he works at the Daily News by day and drinks rum at Al’s by night. Of course, there’s a woman involved, and the novel is also home to its fair share of institutionalised corruption – a very Thompson topic.

The author is better known as the writer of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and while his style is similar here in some ways, it’s also a little different – little touches, and the idiosyncrasies of some of the characters, make this a much more traditional novel, even though it’s still far from it.

It’s a strong recommendation from me, particularly if you’ve already read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and if you’re a fan of Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and other writers of that era – Thompson’s style here reminds me a little of that, and it’s interesting to note that even though he sounds wiser here, it was written before Fear and Loathing, although it wasn’t actually released until 1998. I like a book with a story behind it, and you should too.